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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": "The Inua Jamii Programme is now being rolled out by the Government. The truth of the matter is that that money is too little and inconsistent. Perhaps, the elderly get it three or four times a year, if they are lucky. Many of them have been enrolled to that particular programme. When you look at Paragraph (5) of Part II of this Bill, perhaps there are seven parameters that are listed. A good place to start from would have been a status report. We need to be told how we are doing based on the seven parameters which are education, social security, clean water, nutrition, freedom from hunger, sanitation and housing. I would be interested to know the status report about my county of Kericho before I see the Budget Policy Statement (BPS)or the County Fiscal Strategy (CFS) for the Financial Year 2019/2020. It is important for me to be equipped with the tools to interrogate that document and see how the county government is responding to the needs of the citizens based on these parameters. If it is a particular ward where water is the biggest problem, how can Members of the County Assembly (MCAs) be sensitised to understand that they can forego certain programmes in their wards to ensure that they first guarantee these particular rights? Therefore, this is a very important Bill because of the exercises that are enlisted here. On the functions of the Commission, I am disturbed by the fact that the Commission is supposed to initiate, undertake and participate in the collection, production and dissemination of data or information on how these rights are being guaranteed in the various levels of government. It is impossible without the information being sent out there. The truth of the matter is that many people who vote for us to come to this House do not have the knowledge to the level of understanding that some of these rights are basic to them. That is why you will find a county government licensing an investor to put up a factory and people are happy that their children will have jobs. As they say, a drowning man will clutch at a straw. Nobody goes to check on the environmental impact of the industries. Some of them are ruining future generations but the only reason why they are kept going is because they assure the county governments or the local communities that they will have a revenue stream. Since they can see two, three, four or five children from the community having been employed in a particular industry, they no longer care about their environmental rights. They do not know that it is their right to enjoy a clean and safe environment. If it is at night, they should sleep comfortably. Some of the industries are noisy such that people cannot sleep at night. When you go to developed societies, even operations that are as important as an airport where planes land and people have to arrive, it is known that human rights are non-negotiable. That is why Article 19 of our Constitution clearly states that these rights are not given by the state, so that the citizens do not have the delusions of imagining that they are granted by the state. You will find that in some countries, no planes are allowed to land in an airport that is closely inhabited after 11.00 p.m. or 12.00 p.m. No matter who you are, if the The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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